You think the Founders would have wanted the richest person in the world to office outta the WH?

[OddBeMe]

Yes

No

[Anonymous]

George Washington was one of the richest men in America so yes, they respected people for their proven financial achievements as should you.

Why would you want a man who can't manage his own business & money managing yours?

[OddBeMe]

Funny that the "financier of the American revolution" is another man. But as I asked... the richest man in the world...

[Opinion Owner]

@oddbeme
The point is the founders respected a man for his achievements and wealth. If you had any sense at all you would as well.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Maybe if he isn't a grifter such as Trump !!!

[NYCQuestions1976]

@beefcakebradybatson You must be having a stroke or some other sort of mental health emergency.

[OddBeMe]

"Acheivements in wealth" dont exist when all your companies suffer but your net worth doubles.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Those ol' boys couldn't have dreamt of a grifter like Trump !!!

[Anonymous]

Weren't the founding father the richest people in America or at least became the richest after the revolution. I mean they had huge farms and a lot of slaves.

[purplepoppy]

They were stinking rich before they left Europe.

[Opinion Owner]

@purplepoppy exactly right. Washington was a British officer, English, a slave owner and a blasphemous traitor.

[OddBeMe]

you're confusing the elites with the richest. fcking. man. in. the. world.

[monorprise]

George Washington was one of the richest long before the revolution. Adams a much more modest man had trouble supporting himself in the whitehouse as congress didn't pay enough.

The founders generally admired people for their financial success as anyone with any sense does.

Again why would you want to trust someone who can't manage their own business with yours?

[Opinion Owner]

@monorprise well if you've no tax to pay

[OddBeMe]

@monorprise no he wasn't even the richest virginian

[monorprise]

@OddBeMe
Virginia was the largest colonial so that isn't saying much. Washington was nonetheless one of the richest men in the federation back then both before and after the war.

[Opinion Owner]

@monorprise exactly. He was a colonel in the British army, that costs money to buy.

[OddBeMe]

@monorprise no. And again you're missing the issue. The richest man in the world

[monorprise]

@OddBeMe The fact that he is the richest man in the world is not so relevant as the fact that he is rich and successful. So no that only adds to his luster.

[OddBeMe]

@monorprise to you. To me, success at that level has fck all to do with skill.

[monorprise]

The lies of your communist Indoctrinatiors are speaking to your envy and jealousy. It is not just luck that made such people successful but good judgement and skill. @OddBeMe That they won when others did not is the only indication we have that they are better qualified than the other.

This doesn't mean they are better than all men in all areas only the areas in which they were successful. It is this system of meritocracy that has been proven again and again to be the best, while the alternatives have failed time and time again.

[OddBeMe]

@monorprise no that's sadly not proven. Elon has failed on every business he owns yet his personal wealth has doubled.

[monorprise]

@OddBeMe
Your the first i've ever heard to make such an laughably erroneous slander.

Are PayPal, Tesla, and Spacex all failures?

[Opinion Owner]

@monorprise just look at twitter. He brought it back when it was failing. 60% of the staff were liberals who served no purpose

[dustybiker2]

They filtered insanity better back then.

[monorprise]

@dustybiker2
They did indeed, Maybe that is why they tended to elected people who were more like Musk and Trump in policy?

[dustybiker2]

@monorprise Are they similar? They used to hang cowards.

[monorprise]

Yes, you should look at the policy platform at the time. They hanged almost everyone for crimes of which there were a lot fewer focused almost exclusively on property issues.
They didn't have a managerial or regulatory state trying to protect people from themselfs.

Likewise unemployment was soo uncommon it was itself actually considered a crime. Known as vagrancy.
As it turns out when the goverment doesn't try to micromanage business, everyone can get some kind of job.

Far right wing conservatives today would have been regarded as far leftist to them. 150 + years of media cherry picking the "public conversation" and the Overton window has shifted very far to the left since the time of the founders.

[OddBeMe]

@monorprise you're really taking partisan shots based on the 13 colonies? Pretty sure colonists had to have jobs. Kind of like immigrants today.

[monorprise]

@OddBeMe
What is not partisan about the fact that you were dealing with a far more conservative population at the time?

Overton window has been shifted dramatically to the left since the time of the American founding as a it normally is. Such shifts are the result of the wealth and stability the institutions they created gave people creating a false sense of secure and trustworthiness in the same. This ultimatum leads to future people corrupting or destroying said institutions and the community collapse.

basically the same thing that happens to people in cities. The urban environment creates a false sense of security and trust leading to the corruption of its institutions and the collapse of the same.

[exitseven]

For all we know he may have done just that. The founders were all rich guys and we really do not know who the richest guy in the world was in 1776. Maybe the king of England/?

Elon Musk does not office out of the White House. He manages the Dept of government efficiency for President Trump's Administration.

[beefcakebradybatson]

MUCK FUSK !!!

[monorprise]

@beefcakebradybatson Perhaps you but not the world and not America

[purplepoppy]

Yes they would. They weren't short of a few bob themselves and lived in an age where your worth as a human was measured by the weight of your wallet. They would have been happy for you to have a vote as long as the candidates were wealthy.

[goaded]

Then they should have stuck with King George!

[beefcakebradybatson]

A few bob? Not a few Brady?

[beefcakebradybatson]

@goaded I agree. George Straight is the King of Country singers !!!

[monorprise]

@goaded They would have if only King George had given us representation.

Canada is the other way around they like being lorded over by superior powers without representation.

[beefcakebradybatson]

@monorprise We black folk got ZERO representation in the South and little in the North until Pres. Johnson, who died 52 years ago today at age 64, signed the Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968.

[OddBeMe]

@beefcakebradybatson and sent blacks to fight in Vietnam. #complexhistory

[monorprise]

@beefcakebradybatson

Not only did blacks have the vote in southern states some of them like Clennon Washington King Jr. had their own politic la parties.

Don't confuse laws which allegedly inhibited the black vote for having prohibited the same. Clearly their vote was significant.

[OddBeMe]

@monorprise All Perry Jeffreys did was vote and he and his wife were lynched by conservatives.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Ali said he'd fight wars called only by Allah or "the Messenger," i. e., LFNOI founder Elijah Muhammad, of which the Vietnam police action wasn't one.(African Americans, then 11% of the U. S. population, were one-quarter of the soldiers, partly because some chose military service over straitened circumstances, but many more because Selective Service targeted heavily African American areas for draftees.)

[lightbulb27]

um, like not so long after, these dudes took/owned massive acreage... they were seriously filthy rich. some had slaves.

I don't know what they'd say...

[OddBeMe]

Again you guys are missing it. The richest man in the world. World. Not elites of virginia.

[Anonymous]

the founders? really? NOW you're worried about what they would think after the bat shit crazy that we've had in the white house the last 4 years? I think they'd be more worried about people's diehard hatred of those with differing opinions. The divisiveness is crazy.

[OddBeMe]

Bat shit crazy that solved covid and the trump inflation?

[NYCQuestions1976]

@OddBeMe You need to stop mixing alcohol and pharmaceuticals.

[Anonymous]

This is @NYCQuestions1976 going Anonymous so all of the far-left crybabies see my response. Musk (or Ramaswamy) aren't going to have an office in the White House. They're going to be running the Department Of Government Efficiency. Less drinking, more therapy.

[ProbablyClueless]

I think their objections would have been more centered on the person's views than how rich they are.

[OddBeMe]

Like foreseeing rifles that fire 100 rounds a second.

[ProbablyClueless]

I imagine that they probably anticipated a certain amount of the technological advances that have happened. Maybe not just how extreme the evolutions have been, but they probably saw most of it as a possibility.

[monorprise]

@OddBeMe
Again they didn't outlaw state gun laws, they outlawed Federal gun laws.

States did in fact restrict firearms for most of the first 100 years, in such circumstances.

Its the lawless federal court's radical revision of the illresponsable 14th amendment that gave you that problem.

[OddBeMe]

@monorprise then doesn't Baltimore have a handgun restriction like it wants to?

[OddBeMe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKYW5gKeOWc

[seeyounexttuesday]

They wouldn't want a government this big in the first place that needs someone to come in and clean house.

[OddBeMe]

The billionaires made it huge and lumbering. And yiu think they'll stop doing that?

[seeyounexttuesday]

no they didn't you moron.

[OddBeMe]

Please go back to school. I can't argue against dumb

[seeyounexttuesday]

From the guy who voted Kamala is hilarious.

[Dargil]

He can't be bought. He can't be blackmailed.

[OddBeMe]

Not sure why you think that. But wouldn't his interests diverge from yours?

Right now federal agencies keep hidden fees from fucking your budget. Don't think he'd care

[Sevenpointfive]

i don't know? they were the richest men as well weren't they?

[Anonymous]

Yes.